Overview
The Drag & Drop Card is a visual dashboard builder for Home Assistant. It turns a Lovelace view into a canvas where cards can be placed, resized, layered, connected, animated, exported, and shared.
The goal is to make polished dashboards easier to build. You can start as simple as you want or need, expanding by adding tabs, layers, responsive layouts, connectors, a screen saver, packages, and marketplace-ready exports when the dashboard grows.
What this wiki covers
This guide is written for people building real dashboards, not only for people reading YAML. Each chapter explains what the feature is for, when to use it, and which settings matter.
The basic idea
The Drag & Drop Card dashboard is made from one single Home Assistant card and everything tied to it lives within it. The visual editor stores where those cards live on the canvas. Settings such as tabs, layers, screen saver, packages, and connectors decide how the dashboard behaves around those cards.
Build one small dashboard first. Add three cards, save, refresh, then add tabs and layers. The advanced features make more sense once the basic canvas feels predictable.